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Just got back from taking the CCRN this morning, it wasn't that bad. The little green book by Vonfrolio with 1200 Q&A review had much harder questions in it than the actual test, which is what made it such a good review. Definitely know your cardiac through and through, know every med, all the vessels, every pressure involved in the Swan monitoring, differentiate shock states, cards was definitely the hardest. After that, the renal & electrolytes questions were occasionally challenging. All the other sections, pulmonary, neuro, GI, etc seemed rather straightforward. And this is all coming from someone who graduated nursing school 16 months ago and only has 14 months in ICU. If I can pass it, people with more experience can do it.

Where did you hear that Duke does not require a GRE? I looked all over their applicant pages and only saw mention that the GRE is required, no note on GPA affecting that requirement. Also, I believe St. Raphael's in CT does not require a GRE, my coworker just got an interview there w/o one, he said anything over a 3.5 there gets you out of it.

Can anyone share what the interview experience was like at MWU? I am in the process of completing my application for the June 01, 2009 deadline for the following academic year and would like to have an idea of what to expect.

I have the Saunders Comprehensive Review that I am mostly using. I also have the Kaplan NCLEX-RN review book, but man, they seem a lot easier than the Saunders and Lippincott's books. Overall, I have noticed that most questions are multiple choice/single answer style with minimal to no alternative questions or SATA. Can someone recommend a book or CD that has more of these that they found useful? I am taking my exam June 20th so hopefully Barnes and Noble or somewhere local will carry it.

Spokane ICN, 2nd semester.

I've heard excellent things about it. No wonder not that many people knew about it, I imagine it will get much more competitive as people find out about it.

Was it a very competitive internship to get? Sure didnt seem that way, and nobody at ICN knew about it besides me, not even the professors.

Got the Virginia Mason one, Pulmonary Medicine/Thoracic Surgery.

Does Harborview or Swedish offer anything like this as well?

I live just south of Seattle during the summers and wanted to know if any of you know of a hospital that provides paid internships for nursing students getting their BSN.

I'm not sure who told you they dont have enough applicants to fill their spots, I go to school there and our faculty told us they had almost 800 applicants for their limited ~120-130 spots. So no, getting in there is not a cakewalk. They take however many applicants they have and cut it down to 250 they accept for an interview, then from there they only take half of that for admission. Fall semester is typically more difficult to get in as well, up until this spring's application pool, I think this application pool was one of their largest.

I attend ICN at the main campus and I can tell you we receive much more attention and encouragement from faculty than the off-site students. You only get lectures through video feeds that suffer from poor connection problems and it generally seems as if the faculty puts most of their effort into us main site students. Hope this helps.

I am a nursing student working on my BSN currently at WSU-Spokane. Once finished with my BSN I am hoping to start in an ICU and begin gaining experience to apply for CRNA school. I am curious what else I should do as an undergrad to distinguish myself from all the other applicants. I was just recently told by a graduate professor that she will allow me to take her advanced physiology and pathophysiology courses, which I plan on doing sometime in the next year. I currently have a 3.3 GPA, with courses such as Ochem 340,341,342, MBios 302, Chem 105 and 106, and a slew of other upper division science courses (never took a single 101 or 102 course). I have participated in a genetics study during my first two years and wrote my own paper about it (I dont think it ever got published though), and am currently working on a research project comparing metabolics of visceral versus sub-q adipose tissue in relation to insulin sensitivity. So what else should I be doing to help make my application to CRNA school competitive when the time comes to apply? (besides keeping my GPA as high as possible)